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• Soap
  ...oap | quote =The earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap-like materials dates back to around 2800 BCE in ancient Babylon.}}</ref> A formula for soa ...used was potassium hydroxide made from the ashes of [[bracken]] or from [[wood ash]]es.
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• Activated carbon
  ...n produced from carbonaceous source materials like nutshells, [[peat]], [[wood]], [[coir]], [[lignite]], [[coal]] and [[Pitch (resin)|petroleum pitch]]. Physically, activated carbon binds materials by [[van der Waals force]] or [[London dispersion force]].
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• Butcher block
  '''Butcher block''' is a style of assembled [[wood]] (often [[sugar maple]], [[teak]], or [[walnut]]) used as heavy duty [[cho This type of butcher block is made by gluing pieces of wood with the wood fiber perpendicular to the surface. Most commercial butcher blocks have a t
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• Paper
  ...ing together moist [[fiber]]s, typically [[cellulose]] pulp derived from [[wood]], [[rags]] or [[grass]]es, and drying them into flexible sheets. ...era for the production of newsprint and eventually all paper out of pulped wood.
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• Material
  ...tion, costs, and pricing|production]] or [[manufacturing]]. In this sense, materials are the parts required to make something else, from [[building]]s and [[Art ==Raw materials and processing==
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• Fire-safe polymers
  ...cal)|insulation]] for [[electronics]],<ref name="kumar" /> and in military materials such as canvas tenting.<ref name=hindersinn>Hindersinn, R. R. Historical As ...tempts found application in reducing the flammability of wood for military materials, theater curtains, and other textiles, for example. Important milestones du
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• Polyvinyl acetate
  ...ic]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Murray | first = G. T. | title = Handbook of materials selection for engineering applications | page = 242 | publisher = CRC Press ...y(I) salt.<ref>Rutherford John Gettens and George Leslie Stout, ''Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopaedia'' (Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand, 1942),[h
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• Shellac
  ...primer]], [[sanding]] [[sealant]], [[tannin]]-blocker, [[odor]]-blocker, [[wood stain|stain]], and [[Gloss (material appearance)|high-gloss]] [[varnish]]. ...is often the only historically appropriate finish for early 20th-century [[wood flooring|hardwood floors]], and wooden [[wall]] and [[ceiling]] [[paneling]
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• Polystyrene
  ...ts made from foamed polystyrene are nearly ubiquitous, for example packing materials, insulation, and foam drink cups. ...it|last= Bandyopadhyay |first2= G.|last2=Chandra Basak|year=2007|journal = Materials Science and Technology|volume = 23|issue = 3|pages=307–317 |doi=10.1179/1
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• Glossary of textile manufacturing
  ...binding (sewing)|binding]] is used as both a noun and a verb to refer to ''finishing'' a seam or [[hem]] of a garment, usually by rolling or pressing then stitc ...]] is to interweave or twine three or more separate strands of one or more materials in a diagonally overlapping pattern.
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• Textile
  ...the [[Republic of Georgia]] dated to 34,000 [[BCE]] suggests textile-like materials were made even in prehistoric times.<ref>Balter M. (2009). Clothes Make the Textiles can be made from many materials. These materials come from four main sources: animal ([[wool]], [[silk]]), plant ([[cotton]]
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• Textile manufacturing
  ...forming stages coupled with the complexities of the [[Finishing (textiles)|finishing]] and colouration processes to the production of a wide ranges of products. * Finishing
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• Ski wax
  ...od ski treatment) although tedious, possibly involving expensive and toxic materials, can offer higher performance than a plain unwaxed reference ski, only over ...a wide variety of materials used for grip wax. Both natural and synthetic materials are used.
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• Marmorino
  ...70s, thanks in part to architect Carlo Scarpa's use of marmorino, did this finishing technique return to the interest of the best modern architects. ...d to allow it to be applied on non-traditional surfaces such as drywall or wood panelling.
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• Plaster
  ...or even [[sandpaper]]. These characteristics make plaster suitable for a finishing, rather than a load-bearing material. ...gypsum plaster often being used to simulate the appearance of surfaces of wood, stone, or metal. Nowadays, plasterers are just as likely to use expanded [
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• Stucco
  ...coration. Stucco may be used to cover less visually appealing construction materials such as [[concrete]], [[cinder block]], or clay [[brick]] and [[adobe]]. ...ing, and stucco, which was used outside, would consist of the same primary materials: [[Lime (material)|lime]] and [[sand]] (which are also used in mortar). [[A
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• Deconstruction (building)
  ..., like everything, have a life-cycle. Deconstruction focuses on giving the materials within a building a new life once the building as a whole can no longer con ...on-site, energy and emissions are also saved in the [[transportation]] of materials. Deconstruction can potentially support communities by providing local jobs
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• List of building materials
  '''Building materials''' used in the [[construction]] industry to create [[:Category:Buildings an ...American architects]] and construction [[project manager]]s to specify the materials and methods used for [[:Category:Building projects|building projects]].
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• Drywall
  ...torical%20Background]</ref> Drywall, by contrast to plaster, requires hand finishing only at the fasteners and joints. The drywall process requires less labor a ...nt]] technology made boards lighter and less brittle, then joint treatment materials and systems also evolved. "<ref name="gypsum.org"/>
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• Exterior Insulation Finishing System
  '''Exterior Insulation and Finishing System''' ('''EIFS''') is a type of building exterior wall cladding system ...ynthetic coatings. There are also ''specialty stuccos'' that use synthetic materials but no insulation, and these are also not ''EIFS'' either. A common example
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